The heartbreaker
2.2056
points from the title
Came within 2.2056 points of the Grand Championship at 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) (2019-05-17).
Sweet Willy’s BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1530
peak 1530 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2019-05-17
latest 2019-05-31
Grand champs
1
1 reserve
Category wins
3
5 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 7%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 176.01 · weakest Pork Ribs (174.30)
Road miles
6
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
512.58 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 1 GC
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (6 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Giant slayer
49
teams beaten in one weekend
Took the Grand Championship over a 49-team field at Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL).
- 2019-05-31
A multi-meat day
1
contests with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL) (2019-05-31).
- Chicken 1st
- Pork Ribs 1st
High-water mark
674.8688
career-best overall
187.5% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 674.8688 at 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) — 187.5% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-05-17
State champions
1
state championships won
They've taken 1 state championship from 1 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 1 state-championship entries
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 16 at their very first tracked contest, 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) (2019-05-17).
- 2019-05-17
- 16-team field
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Sweet Willy’s BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 77 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2194 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Sweet Willy’s BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2196 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#2207 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Sweet Willy’s BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2199 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Level with Sweet Willy’s BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2202 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before Sweet Willy’s BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2206 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1530
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 178.3200 | 173.7028 | 176.01 | top 7% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 176.5944 | 172.0000 | 174.30 | top 10% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 174.8456 | 174.8456 | 174.85 | top 6% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 13% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 1 | top 2% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2019-05-17 → 2019-05-31
Busiest season
2019
2 contests · 1 GC
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 176.01 · weakest Pork Ribs (174.30)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Wins it all
50%
1 Grand Championship · 1 reserve
First title
2019-05-31
Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL)
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
512.58
out of 360 · 2 contests · 1 GC
Opponents faced
75
76–1 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
6
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$10,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1530
peak 1530 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First category win (Pork) 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.8688 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score674.8688 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)178.3200 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Grand Championship Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL)
- First state championship Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL)
- First multi-meat day Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL)
- Biggest field won (49 teams) Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL)
- Most recent contest Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL)
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 100% | top 7% | 187.5% | 142.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-31 | Horse Town Brew N Que Festival (JUDGES FULL) 🏅 Norco, CA | 1 / 49 (350.2972) | 1 (173.7028) | 1 (176.5944) | — | — |
| 2019-05-17 | 16th Annual Burnt Offerings (BACKYARD ONLY) Riverside, CA | 2 / 16 (674.8688) | 2 (178.3200) | 3 (172.0000) | 1 (174.8456) | — |